Single photon emission computerised tomography in chronic alcoholism: Antisocial personality disorder may be associated with decreased frontal perfusion

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 169, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 348-354

  Kuruoǧlu, Asli Çepik ^a,b   Arikan, Zehra ^a   Vural, Gülin ^a   Karataş, Metin ^a   Araç, Mehmet ^a   Işik, Erdal ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATROPHY; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMORBIDITY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, AUDITORY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TURKEY;

EID: 0029767655     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.169.3.348     Document Type: Article

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